One Wagga family's five-generation photo tradition was carried on this weekend as the ACT-NSW border lifted and Jessica Sadler, and her ten-week-old son Sebastian McCauley, could finally visit home.
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The family first had a photo featured in The Daily Advertiser in 1979 with North Wagga-born James Price 'Farvy', a proud great-great-grandfather, and four generations of his descendants in the one image.
In 1996 Farvy's daughter Thelma Walton again posed with four generations of her first-born descendants, all female, for the paper.
Now in 2021, Farvy's granddaughter Joy Wayling has got together with her daughter Pamela Ballin, granddaughter Rachel Lee, great-granddaughter Ms Sadler and great-great-grandson Sebastian to continue the photo tradition.
Saturday was the first time the family had been able to meet newborn Sebastian, who was born premature in the ACT during the recent lockdown.
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Ms Sadler was last in Wagga just a few days before she gave birth, and had to rush home the very day she arrived when the lockdown was announced.
The family were thrilled on Saturday to not only meet little Sebastian for the first time, but to continue the special photo tradition.
Ms Ballin said the photos are a "beautiful" keepsake to have for the entire family.
"I think because it's not that common, it's quite a big thing," she said.
"It's a treasured memory because it just doesn't happen; I love it."
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